What You’ll Do

• Serve as the chief architect for the global connector group.
• Take ownership and lead initiatives to make our SaaS connectors the fastest in the industry, focusing on performance and optimization.
• Drive engineering excellence through architecture design and reviews for data pipeline service projects and features.
• Lead engineering-wide initiatives across several key technologies.
• Collaborate actively with the Office of the CTO as a member of our architecture guild.
• Work closely with other principal engineers across multiple development locations.
• Contribute as an active engineering team member to deliver robust, scalable features.
• Enhance engineering systems, documentation, and development processes.
• Coach and mentor senior/staff engineers, fostering a culture of growth and excellence.
• Support hiring efforts by participating in the interview process.

What makes you a great fit:

• 15+ years of professional experience in designing and delivering large-scale, enterprise-level software products.
• Extensive experience as an architect or principal level engineer, with a collaborative yet decisive leadership style that drives change effectively.
• Proven ability to lead and deliver large-scale architectural projects with a strong focus on achieving results.
• Thrives in collaborative settings with both technical (engineers, leads) and non-technical (product managers, analysts) team members to develop complex, system-level features.
• Strong interpersonal skills and adaptability to engage effectively across all levels, from hands-on work with engineers to high-level collaboration with the CTO.
• Extensive back-end development experience, ideally for customer-facing products.
• Skilled in writing well-structured, efficient code and adept in designing, building, maintaining, testing, and deploying software.
• Experienced in developing concepts, building proofs-of-concept (POCs), and bringing projects to production-ready status.
• Proficient in end-to-end system profiling, performance tuning, and optimization.
• Experienced in cloud environment architectures, utilizing technologies such as AWS, GCP, PostgreSQL, Kubernetes, Docker, and CircleCI.
• Hands-on experience with data pipelines and relational databases, including Oracle, PostgreSQL, SQL Server, or MySQL.